Wyndham accepted that result as a good augury for the big event, but the latter, which started at two-thirty, proved a reversal of fortune. It was Horner who got away to a fine start this time and Wyndham who trailed all the way to the finish. Billy Desmond and his seven companions in the Dark Blue’s shell rowed themselves out before the distance was three-fourths covered, went on heroically but raggedly and fairly collapsed with the coxswain’s shout of “Let her run!” Horner had showed a generous six lengths of water behind her boat at the finish. Wyndham had to be satisfied with the minor victory of the junior eight as she hustled back to school for the ball game. Mr. Cooper joined Clif and his father and Walter Treat and the quartet witnessed this contest from seats behind third base. Mr. Cooper and Mr. Bingham, it must be acknowledged, failed to manifest unflagging interest. They seemed to find a number of subjects more interesting than baseball, and there were moments when Clif was rather impatient with his father because the latter allowed his attention to wander. Walter was a nice chap, and Clif liked him a lot, but Walter was no baseball fan and displayed at times the crassest ignorance. The game was well played and almost every inning supplied a thrill, but after the fourth frame only the most optimistic of Wyndham rooters dared predict a victory for the home team. The Wyndham infield was playing together like a well-oiled machine, Jeff Ogden was holding the visitors to a few scattered hits and Fortune remained impartial. But while Horner had failed during four innings to get a man as far as third base, Wyndham had failed to get one to first! It was plain enough to be seen that Horner’s aggressive batters were destined to come into their own ultimately, and when that happened the boy at the score board was going to stop hanging up goose eggs! It happened in the first half of the fifth inning. The Horner shortstop, second man on the list, hit safely past Captain Leland and went to second on a sacrifice out, Tom to Van Dyke. The visitor’s third baseman fell on one of Ogden’s curves and poled out a two-bagger into left field, scoring the first run of the game. Hurry handled the next out, an easy grounder, throwing to first. A sharp liner through the box scored the second tally. On an attempted steal the last hitter was pegged out at second by Risley.